My Quarto blog category listing pages don't display posts anymore

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My Quarto blog's categories listing pages are no longer showing the posts that they should. The main blog page is fine, but if I click any of the categories, they no longer work. (They used to work. I don't know exactly when they stopped working, it may be when I upgraded my Linux server's R and RStudio versions but it could have been before).

Thanks so much for any suggestions to fix this! (Update: Per a suggestion on Mastodon, I will also post this on GitHub)

Main index.qmd page:

---
title: "My Next Chapter"
listing:
  contents: posts
  sort:
    - "date desc"
    - "order asc"
    - "title asc"
  type: default
  categories: true
  feed: 
    type: partial
  sort-ui: false
  filter-ui: false
page-layout: full
title-block-banner: true
image: "path_thru_trees.webp"
image-alt: "A path through trees"
---

The _quarto.yaml file:

project:
  type: website

website:
  title: "My Next Chapter: A Retirement Journey"
  site-url: "https://NextChapter.machlis.com"
  description: "One woman's experience entering a new stage of life after decades of full-time work. What's it like leaving a professional identity (partly) behind? A blog about retiring, vibrant aging, and fighting ageism."
  google-analytics: "G-4JRE93QCHJ"
  favicon: favicon.jpg
  twitter-card: true
  open-graph: true
  body-footer: "<em><br />You can follow My Next Chapter by <a href='/email.html'>email newsletter</a> or <a href='/index.xml'>RSS feed</a>. Blog content © Sharon Machlis.</em><a rel='me' href='https://masto.machlis.com/@smach' />"
  navbar:
    right:
      - text: Home
        href: index.qmd
      - about.qmd
      - resources.qmd
      - icon: envelope
        href: email.qmd
      - icon: rss
        text: RSS
        href: index.xml
      - text: "{{< iconify simple-icons bluesky >}}"
        href: https://bsky.app/profile/smachlis.bsky.social
      - icon: mastodon
        href: https://masto.machlis.com/@smach
      - icon: linkedin
        href: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmachlis

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
    css: styles.css

editor: visual
execute:
  freeze: auto

Typical blog post yaml:

---
title: "Almost a Year Since I Decided to Retire"
author: "Sharon Machlis"
description: "What I feared, and how things have turned out so far"
date: "2025-05-18"
categories: [Reflections, Retiring, Retirement]
image: "ChatGPT_two_desks_resized.webp"
image-alt: "Illustration image by ChatGPT of busy person on left at a desk with head in hands; calm-looking desk on right showing calendar on May and a sticky note saying time to retire"
---

This no longer works whether I try to render on my Linux server or locally on my Windows machine. My Linux Quarto environment

Quarto 1.7.31
[✓] Checking environment information...
      Quarto cache location: /home/{myusername}/.cache/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.6.3: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.85.1: OK
      Deno version 1.46.3: OK
      Typst version 0.13.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.7.31
      Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Tex:  (not detected)

[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
      Using: Chrome found on system
      Path: /usr/bin/chromium-browser
      Source: PATH

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.10.12
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.5.0
      Path: /usr/lib/R
      LibPaths:
        - /home/{myusername}/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.5
        - /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/lib/R/library
      knitr: 1.45
      rmarkdown: 2.25

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK
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And the answer is: "My guess is that your quarto-listing.js in your "freezer" might need an update. You can delete site_libs in it to ensure it's updated." many thanks to @mcanouil on GitHub Quarto blog category listing pages no longer displaying correct posts · quarto-dev/quarto-cli · Discussion #12770 · GitHub

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